WinXP sees all CDs as blank

[reicherb]

I've got a WinXP Home edition system that no matter what CD you put in the CDROM drive, it detects as blank. If you put them in the writer it reads them ok. I've tried swapping CDROM drives, cables, unhooking the writer. Nothing solves the problem.

The system is running an MSI 6340
The writer is the secondary master and the CDROM drive is the secondary slave.

Any ideas?

 

[bjc112]

Could be the CD-ROM is going bad, especially if your put it in the burner and its detected...

 

[reicherb]

I've tried 2 different CDROM drives with the same result. I've also tried changing drive letters.

It appears that if the disc is in the drive when the computer boots it detects it, but as soon as you take it out all discs are detected as blank.

 

[bjc112]

hm, that is odd..

So if you put in a true Audio CD, it reads it as blank?

 

[reicherb]

Yes, both audio and data CDs. Burned and original.

 

[reicherb]

I've narrowed it down to skdaemon.exe starting through the registry. Does anybody know what that does? I can't find much info about it and don't want to disable it if it's needed or if I can fix it.

Thanks.

 

[bacillus]

I get similiar results with my cds but everything else works well so ignore that discrepency!

 

[reicherb]

Originally posted by: bacillus
so ignore that discrepency!

I'm not sure what you mean.